Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Inwood, Henry William
INWOOD, HENRY WILLIAM (1794–1843), architect, born on 22 May 1794, was the eldest son of William Inwood [q. v.] the architect. He was educated under his father, and in 1819 travelled in Greece, especially studying and drawing the architecture of Athens. He formed a small collection of Greek antiquities from Athens, Mycenæ, Laconia, Crete, &c. This collection, consisting of about thirty-nine objects (fragments from the Erechtheion and Parthenon, terra-cottas, inscriptions, &c.), was sold to the British Museum in 1843 for 40l. An inventory of it (dated 8 March 1843), in Inwood's handwriting, is in the library of the department of Greek and Roman antiquities in the museum. He assisted his father in designing and in superintending the erection of St. Pancras New Church (1819–22), and was also connected with him in the erection of three London chapels (1822–4) [see under Inwood, William]. Inwood was a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and for many years, from 1809, an exhibitor at the Royal Academy. He is supposed to have died on 20 March 1843, about which time a vessel in which he had sailed for Spain was lost with all on board. Inwood published: 1. ‘The Erechtheion at Athens; fragments of Athenian architecture, and a few remains in Attica, Megara, Eleusis, illustrated,’ London, 1827, fol. A German work, ‘Das Erechtheion,’ Potsdam, 1843, by A. F. Quast, is based on this. 2. ‘Of the Resources of Design in the Architecture of Greece, Egypt, and other Countries obtained by … studies … from Nature,’ London, 1834, 4to (only two parts published).
[Architectural Publ. Soc. Dict.; Redgrave's Dict. of Artists.]